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Securing Partitions

ok, so I have a usb hard drive with four partitions, I want to give my friend the drive so he can copy some stuff of one of the partitions. The thing is I dont want him to be able to view the other partitions.
What is the easiest way in doing this?
Thanks

Sorry i should have been more clear about the drive. It a 2.5 inch laptop drive with a USB connection.
Yes I have XP / SuSe installed on it.
I just want to encrypt two of the partitions so they cant be viewed.
Thanks

Of course if he has some skill in computers and he really wants to see what else you have on the key he will just unhide the partitions. The only real way to be sure that he will not get information you do not want him to have is to make sure it is not on there. I would either go with a second usb key or burn a CD/DVD with what you want him to have. Or you could go to his place plug in the key yourself copy what he needs and take the key away with you.

Cheers,
Muracu

\"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.\"
\"The reason we are so pleased to find other people\'s secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.\"
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)

Ideally, You would only provide him with the data that he needs...Why not just burn it to a CD?
Sure you can use something like TrueCrypt for XP to encrypt various partitions, but what happens if he accidently (or intentionally) destroyed some of those encrypted partitions?
Solution...Buy a 15 cent round piece of plastic to write his data too...

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